Schools and Departments

An Introduction to School of Accounting

The School of Accounting now has two major disciplines: accountancy and financial Management, the former being authorized to enroll postgraduates in 1978 and to confer master’s degrees in 1981. In 1986, the discipline of accountancy was authorized to start the doctoral program and to confer doctor’s degree. It started its postdoctoral program in 1995 and was accredited by the Ministry of Finance in 1997 and Ministry of Education respectively as the key discipline on the ministerial and state level. In 1994, ACCA Test Training Center was established. In 2004, the discipline was listed as one of the 21 experimental units on the state level to try the conduct of MPAcc. At present, the two disciplines enjoy strong faculty force, full academic orientations of research, good quality of teaching, and great prestige home and abroad, and have become the cultivating bases of the talents of accounting, auditing, and finance.

Major Research Orientations

Accounting Theories, History of Accounting and Auditing and the Ideological History, Financial Accounting, International Accounting, Auditing, Accounting of Cost Management, and Enterprises Finance, etc.

Academic Team and Forerunners

The School of Accounting owns a teaching staff with high academic background and academic titles, ideal age structure, and remarkable achievements in scientific research. There are now 65 full-time teachers, among which 44 have doctor’s or master’s degrees, with a percentage of 67%. There are 15 professors and 24 associate professors, with the percentage of 23% and 40% respectively. Two of the teachers are the chief members of international academic institution of accounting, and one is the person-in- charge of prestigious international academic society. 6 teachers have been granted the State Council expert allowance. 4 teachers are now major person-in-charge of national academic society and 20 teachers are now directors and members of national academic societies of accounting. 18 teachers hold the positions of chief editor, deputy editor, compilers of important academic periodicals of our country. A disciplinary and academic team has thus been formed with a group of prestigious scholars Guo Daoyang, Luo Fei, Zhang Longping, Xia Chengcai, Tang Guoping, and Xu Jialin as its forerunners.

Major achievements in Scientific Research

In recent years, over 600 theses have been published on various academic journals, and over 100 textbooks and monographs have been compiled and published. The School has taken up over 50 research projects of educational reform of accounting sponsored by State Natural Science Fund, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, and the Department of Education of Hubei, many of which have been awarded prizes of scientific research on the state level and ministerial and provincial level. The research of Chinese history of accounting and auditing remains in the leading place home and abroad, and has filled the vacuum of research of Chinese history of accounting.

Objectives of Disciplinary Construction

We are striving to build the discipline of accountancy into world-famous key discipline on a state level with first-rate academic team, good quality of cultivation, rich achievements in scientific research, first-class facilities for teaching and research, and high level of management. We are also determined to build Financial Management into first-rate key discipline at home.

An Introduction to School of Finance and Taxation

The predecessor of finance discipline was the department of Finance and Credits of Zhongyuan University founded in 1948, which was one of the earliest established disciplines of finance among the universities of the country. The disciplinary program was authorized to enroll postgraduates in 1979 and to confer doctor’s degree in 1993. In 1995, postdoctoral program was approved. The disciplinary of finance was accredited as one of the first key programs of the universities under Ministry of Finance in 1997, and was accredited as the key program on the state level. In September, 2004, the program was accredited as The Accomplished and Innovative Discipline of Hubei Province.

With Yang Canming, Li Daming, Pang fengxi and the others as the disciplinary forerunners, the discipline of finance is striving forward and has formed its own features: serving the development of local economy with local finance as the focus of scientific research; taking the leading position among the universities of China with the sole research institute of financial history and its research; combining the research of taxation policy with market economy and development of enterprises with a breakthrough in the field of research of enterprises taxation planning.

Major Orientations of Scientific Research

Basic theories of Chinese finance and macro financial policy, Taxation Policy and Legal System of Taxation, China’s Financial Ideology and Changes of System, Management of State-owned Property, Agricultural Economy and Taxation Policy, Comparison between East and West Finance

Academic Team

The School now boasts of an academic team with high educational backgrounds, high academic titles, well-balanced age structure, and innovative spirit. There are 32 full-time teachers, including 12 professors, 10 associate professors, 9 lecturers, 16 doctors, 2 post doctors, 11 postgraduates.

Major Achievements in Scientific Research

In the recent 5 years, nearly 40 scientific research projects sponsored at the ministerial and provincial level have been undertaken and accomplished. More than 40 monographs and textbooks have been published. Over 80 theses have been published in the authoritative journals such as Economic Research, Finance and Trade Economy, Finance Research, Taxation Research.

Academic Objective

To cultivate highly internationalized and localized administrators of finance with high quality, take the construction of first-rate teaching staff as the basis, strengthen the fruits of disciplinary construction with high-quality scientific research and teaching as support, build the discipline of finance into state-level key discipline that takes the leading place and approaches the international advanced level.

Introduction to School of Business Administration

The School of Business Administration owns one primary discipline of business administration and the post doctoral programs of business administration and applied economics. The school is authorized to confer doctor’s degrees to the 6 programs of Enterprise Management, Industrial Economics, International Trade, Marketing, Technical Economics and Management, and Tourism. Master’s degrees are offered to the 7 programs Enterprise Management, Industrial Economics, International Trade, Agricultural Economy, Marketing, Technical Economics and Management.

There are now 124 administrators and faculty, among which 99 full-time teachers and 25 administrators. There are 21 professors, 46 associate professors, 26 lecturers, and 6 teaching assistants. 6 professors are entitled to Government Allowance granted by the State Council, and one professor has been awarded the Outstanding Expert of Hubei Province. Professors Wang Haisu, Xiong Shengxu, Chen Chibo, and Hu Lijun have been accredited Academic Forerunners of the New Century at the ministerial and provincial level. Another 3 professors have been made the candidates of Academic Forerunners of the New Century by the Ministry of Finance.

During the recent 5 years, over 1500 theses and 20 monographs have been published, which won 16 awards at the ministerial and provincial level. 8 scientific projects have been conducted at the ministerial and provincial level. Presently, more than 40 cooperative scientific projects are being conducted, 5 of which are sponsored by the state natural science funds, 1 is sponsored by the state social science funds, and 1 is sponsored by the state postdoctorate funds, 3 are planned projects of the Ministry of Education. More than 10 professors work as consultants for enterprises or as independent directors.

The School will proceed to maintain and upgrade the superior strength and function in the research fields of Enterprise Management, Industrial Economics, International Trade, Marketing, Agricultural Economics and Management, take full advantage of disciplinary resources and superior teaching force, expand the research of relevant frontier disciplines and overlapping disciplines, broaden the academic exchange with foreign universities, strengthen the cooperation with enterprises and the transformation of scientific fruits, and build our school into the first-rate business administrative school in China.

Introduction to School of Foreign Studies

School of Foreign Studies owns two major programs: English language and Japanese language, and one postgraduate program of English Language and Applied Linguistics. . The academic orientation is business English, legal English, foreign language and culture, comparative study of East and West culture, business Japanese, British and American literature, applied linguistics, and translation, etc..

The school adheres to the path of combining foreign language teaching with business, trade and law, fully utilizing the disciplinary superior force of economics, administration, and law of our university to strengthen and stress the interdisciplinary features with economics, law, and administration, as well as the application and research of language in the fields of economy and law so as to cultivate multidisciplinary talents with a strong possession of the knowledge of business, trade, and law.

With a comparatively strong academic teaching staff, the school is striving to cultivate new disciplines and academic forerunners for the rapid development and progress of the discipline.

In recent 5 years, 6 theses have been published on the national core learned periodicals , nearly 400 theses have been published on the periodicals at the ministerial and provincial levels. The teaching staff have also published 5 monographs, over 20 textbooks, and more than 40 books of various kinds. Recently, 5 scientific research projects at the state and provincial level have been approved and are now being conducted.

Our objective is to further carry out educational reform in the areas of teaching ideology, context, and methods, develop the comprehensive language skills of the students, stress interdisciplinary features of language and business and law, so as to make the discipline one of the best among the universities of China.

Introduction to School of Humanities

The discipline of philosophy of the school has a long history with two secondary master’s programs of Marxist philosophy and ethics, and a doctorate program of enterprise ethics. The postgraduate program of Marxist Philosophy was established in 1978, which was one of the early programs in the country. In 1993, the first postgraduate program of ethics in Hubei Province was authorized to confer Master’s degree and the doctorate program of Enterprise Ethics was approved in the year 2003.

During the course of development of the discipline of philosophy, great attention has been attached to the research of basic theories. Based on the backbone disciplines and superior disciplines such as economics and administration of the University, Philosophy of Economy, Philosophy of Administration, Economic Ethics, and Ethics of Enterprises (Ethics of Administration) have been drastically developed.

Major Academic Orientation

Study of Western Marxist Philosophy, Economic Ethics (including Ethics of Enterprises), Economic Philosophy (including Philosophy of Administration), Historical Idealism and Social Historical Philosophy.

Academic Team and Leading Scholars

The school has a well-balanced and potential teaching staff with such leading scholars as Liu Kefeng, Wang Yuchen, Yang Qingrong, Hu Xianxin, and Zhu Shugang.

Achievements in Scientific Research

In recent years, the faculty has published more than 300 theses in the core learned journals home and abroad, several monographs and textbooks, and joined in and undertook several research projects at the state, ministerial and provincial level, and some cooperative projects of China with the universities in Europe.

Objective of Academic Construction

The school is striving to sustain the superiority of traditional discipline of economics philosophy and economic ethics, strengthen the construction of new branches of learning such as Marxist philosophy, and intensify the construction of doctorate program of enterprise ethics.

Introduction to School of Information

Statistics is the key subject at the provincial level. The department of statistics held the qualification to offer the Master degree and PHD in Statistics in 1981and 1986 successively. The department of statistics has made great achievements in training talents, establishing disciplines and scientific research. The staff has publish more than 40 textbooks and reference books, over 400 theses, and trained nearly 1000 The leading scholars are Xiang Shujian, Xu Yingmei, and Liu Hong.

The subject of computer science and technology takes computer as the foundation and focuses on the combination of economics, law, and administration.

Academic Team and Forerunners ： The School of Information owns 52 professional teachers, among which there are six professors, Ten of them have been awarded doctoral degree. The prominent scholars are Yang Yunyan, Liu Tenghong, Zeng Qingwei, He Youming, Song Kezhen, Zhu Shaolin, Zhangkai, Ye Huangzhou and etc.

Major Academic Orientation: Study of the theories of systematic science, models of information system, systematic exploration of environment and tools, application of computer in management, application of data base and managerial information system, computer network and technology of e-business.

Major Achievements in Scientific Research: A dozen of monographs and more than 20 textbooks have been published. More than 20 research projects have been conducted such as Management System of Investment of Three Gorges Project, System of Electronic Administrative Affairs of Huizhou City, Taxation Administration System of Hubei Province. Besides, nearly 500 theses have been published.

Objective of Disciplinary Construction: The school has planned to carry forward the superiority of traditional disciplines, bring the strengths of present branches of learning into full display, and explore new subjects. We pledge to exert great efforts in running the two undergraduate subjects of Information Management and Information System, and E-Business. We will intensify the construction of two postgraduate programs, namely, Management Information System and Application Technology of Computers. The establishment of postgraduate programs of Computer Software and Theories and Management Science and Engineering is under consideration. It is desirable that the doctorate program Economic Information Management will enroll candidate in the year of 2006.

Introduction to School of Journalism and Mass Media

The school has two undergraduate programs including Journalism and Mass Media with the academic orientation of Economic News and Law News, which are based on the superiority of the disciplines of economics, law, and administration of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. The mission is to cultivate multidisciplinary talents with the knowledge of journalism, economics, and law. Now, the graduates of the school have displayed more advantages in finding employment than the students of the same subject in other universities. Taking education of features as the basis, the school has established an interdisciplinary academic team with Professor Li Daorong and Associate Professor Wang Meifang as leading scholars, whose major concern of research lies in Economic News, Law News, and Media Management. Postgraduate program of Journalism and undergraduate programs of Advertising are being nurtured. In addition, the school owns a teaching staff of literature and arts, and a postgraduate program of arts as well as two undergraduate programs of arts design (advertisement design and cartoon design) will be started in the near future.

The objective of the school is to foster an academic team with journalism as the trunk, literature and arts being the wings.

Introduction to School of Economics

The discipline of Theoretical Economics is one of the subjects with the longest history in our university. The subject comprises Political Economics, Economic History, History of Economic Ideology, Western Economics, Economics of Population Resources and Environment, Regional Economics and National Economy Management. The past 50 years saw many renowned domestic scholars teaching courses of the discipline: Ma Zhemin, Zhu Jiannong, Wu Chenghua, Zhang Jitao, Hou Houji, Zhao Dexin, Xia Xingyuan, Zhao Lingyun, Lu Xianxiang, and Liu Sihua. With the strenuous efforts of several generations of the scholars, the discipline of Theoretical Economics is on the front rank of the universities of the same discipline, and enjoys great prestige in the international academic world. Also on the front rank of the country are the study of China’s Underground Economic Issue, Economic History of the People’s Republic of China, Economics of New System and Transformed Economy, and Sustainable Development Economics. During the recent 5 years, several scientific projects sponsored by state natural science funds and state social science funds have been conducted. The overall objective of the construction of Theoretical Economics is to build the discipline into first-rate base in our country with special features and superiority as the basis so that it can be the key base of scientific research and teaching for the cultivation of high-ranking talents of economic theories.

Introduction to Law School

As one of the three mainstream disciplines of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, the discipline of jurisprudence originated from Zhongnan Institute of Politics and Law and the Law Department of Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics. Law School comprises eight departments: Theoretical Law, Constitution and Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Procedural Law, Civil and Commercial Law, Economic Law, International Law, International Economic Law, one teaching practice centre, and 12 research institute such as Research Center of Jurisprudence.

The school has 3 doctorate programs: Legal History, Constitutional Law, and Civil Law, 9 master’s programs of jurisprudence with the authority to confer JM degrees on more than 30 academic orientations. The school has 4 key disciplines at the provincial level, namely, Civil and Commercial Law, Constitution and Administrative Law, Legal History, and Economic Law. There are 9 secondary subjects, namely, Legal Theory, Legal History, Constitution and Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Procedural Law, Civil and Commercial Law, Economic Law, Environment and Resources Protection Law, International Law. Professor Wu Handong has been elected into the Humanities and Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education of China. Professors Chen Xiaojun and Qi Wenyuan have been hired as experts of national evaluation of undergraduate teaching quality. 11 professors, such as Qi Wenyuan, Liu Maolin, Fan Zhongxin, Chen Jingliang, Li xihui, Lei Xinghu, Yao Li, Xia Yong, Liu Dahong, Fang Shirong, and Lu Zhongmei, have been elected leading scholars of the ZNUEL.

In the recent 5 years, the faculty have published 2100 theses in the authoritative and core journals such as China’s Social Science, Law Study, Chinese Laws. They compiled more than 130 textbooks planned by the state, textbooks for nation-wide use, recommended textbooks, textbooks at the ministerial level, innovative textbooks, and so on. More than 110 monographs have been published.

The objective of the school is to build the school into the first-rate and research type law school with international prestige.

Introduction to School of Public Security

The School of Public Security is a teaching and research institution of basic theories and practical skills with the focus on such subjects as Science of Criminal Investigation, Public Order Management, and Administration of Border Defense. Based on Jurisprudence, Science of Administration, and Economics, the school emphasizes the features of public security education, and explores the educational mode of public security that displays the spirit of the times.

The school owns 8 full-time and part-time professors, 18 associate professors (including senior technicians), 13 lectures and teaching assistants, who form an academic team with high academic titles and educational background, rational age structure, rigorous scholarship, and profound academic achievements. The leading scholar is Professor Yang Zonghui.

The faculty of the school have published more than 20 monographs and 500 theses in the learned journals home and abroad. They have also undertaken 20 research projects at the state or provincial level.

The school is attempting to build the School of Public Security into the key discipline of Hubei Province that will take a leading place in the country.

Introduction to School of Public Administration

The School of Public Administration owns 3 doctorate programs of Labor and Social Security, Labor Economics, and Civil Economics, and 5 master’s degree programs of Administration of Government Affairs, Social Security, Labor Economics, Civil Economics ( Macro-Economics orientation), Administration of Enterprises (Administration of Human Resources orientation). The school is also authorized to confer MPA. There are now more than 1400 doctorate candidates, postgraduates, and undergraduates.

The school has a staff of 45, among which are 33 full-time teachers, with 70% of master’s degree or higher. Many of the faculty are prestigious experts and scholars well-known in Hubei Province and in China. Some of them take the chief positions in the academic organizations on the state, provincial and city level.

The school comprises such departments as Labor and Social Security and Administration of Government Affairs, and such research institutes and centers as social security, Labor Economics, public administration, human resources, Community and Community work. There is a key research base of humanities and social science of universities of Hubei Province--- Hubei Employment and Reemployment Research Centre. The School also runs a magazine Labor Employment and Social Security which is open to the public.

During recent 3 years, the faculty have published over 10 monographs, works of translation, textbooks with high academic quality, 120 academic theses. They have undertaken more than 20 research project on the State, Provincial, and ministerial level, among which one project sponsored by China Natural Science Funds, one project sponsored by National Social Science Funds,1 project for bidding sponsored by the Ministry of Education. Many achievements in research have been awarded prizes by the state, provincial government, and ministry. The academic team with Zhao Man, Xu Shuangmin, Chen MingQuan, Wang Changcheng, and Zhao Li as the leading scholars is growing significantly.

Introduction to Xinhua School of Finance and Insurance

The disciplines of Banking and Investment of Xinhua School of Finance and Investment have a long history with the Department of Banking established in Zhongyuan University in 1950 while the subject of Investment was established in 1956 based on the subject of Finance and Credit of Capital Construction. In May, 2000, the school of Banking was established on the basis of Department of Banking and Department of Investment of the School of Finance and Banking. In September of the same year, sponsored by Xinhua Life Insurance, Inc. the school changed into Xinhua School of Finance and Insurance.

With the professors like Ma Jun and Zhang Zhonghua as leading scholars, Banking and Investment have developed its own features, remarkable in the study of disciplinary theories and approaches to achieve high quality, multi disciplines, and frontier science. In practical research, we focus on the applicability, innovation, and originality.

Academic Orientation

Academic orientation of Banking is Banking Theories and Regulation and Control, Management of Banking and International Banking, Insurance and Risk Management, Banking Market and Banking Project.

Academic orientation of Investment is Theories and Management of Investment Economy, Theories and Approaches of Banking Investment, Real Estate Economy and Project Supervision.

Academic Team

The school owns an outstanding academic team of high educational background, high academic titles, rational structure of age, and strong innovative ability. Among 75 full-time teachers, there are 16 professors (including 6 doctoral supervisors), and 28 associate professors.

Major Achievements in Scientific Research

During the recent 5 years, the faculty has undertaken 59 various scientific research projects, published 33 monographs, 74 textbooks. There are also over 700 theses published in a variety of journals, such as Economic Research, Financial and Trade Economy, Banking Research, and Investment Research, 35 of which have been awarded the prizes of scientific research.

Objective of Disciplinary Construction

As far as the construction of Banking and Investment are concerned, we resolve to build them into key disciplines on the state level with the establishment of the disciplinary system of a combination of macro-control and micro-flexibility, and an intersection of traditional practice and modern concept.